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Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
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Schlissel, Lillian; Gibbens, Byrd and Hampsten, E.
Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
(Schocken Books, 1989).
Hardback. Very good. xviii + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A14986
Keywords: 9780805240528, American West, history, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, frontiers, frontier territory, migration, nineteenth century, 19th
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Phillips, Anne.
Divided Loyalties: Dilemmas of Sex and Class
(Virago, 1987).
Paperback. Minor annotation, otherwise good. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10070
Keywords: 0860685535, sex, sexual, class, feminism, feminists, gender, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, history, Viragos
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Head, F. B.
Stokers and Pokers: or the London and North Western Railway, The Electric Telegraph, and The Railway Clearing-House
(David and Charles, second edition, rpt, 1968).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise very good and bright in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A14369
Keywords: B000SNG51M, transport, railways, railway, London, electric telegraph, North Western Railway, trains, history, Crewe, locomotives, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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National Trust, .
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire:
(National Trust, revised edition, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A14801
Keywords: 0900562862, Halls, Moreton Hall, Cheshire, timber-framed architecture, history, Congleton, Tudor, Tudors
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McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita.
Women at Cambridge: A Men's University - Though of a Mixed Type
(Victor Gollancz, 1975).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in slightly rubbed, slightly creased dustwrapper. 255pp. Order No. NSBK-C6765
Keywords: 0575019697, women, Cambridge, education, university, Oxbridge, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, Cambridge University
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Petroski, Catherine.
A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail
(Northeastern UP, 1997).
American woman's honeymoon sea voyage in 1855, based on her diary. Paperback. Back cover creased, otherwise very good. xviii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C1616
Keywords: 1555532977, America, American, American women, American women's history, sea, nautical, marriage, honeymoon, Susan Hathorn, Hathorn, bride, diary, woman writer, women writers, American women writers, United States, USA, nineteenth century, maritime
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Brooke, Iris.
English Costume in the Age of Elizabeth: The Sixteenth Century
(Adam and Charles Black, rpt., 1956).
With drawings by Iris Brooke. Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. 88pp. Order No. NSBK-J11331
Keywords: B000HEFISS, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sixteenth century, 16th, costumes, clothes, dress, fashion, Elizabeth
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Wilson, David Alec and Macarthur, David Wilson.
Carlyle in Old Age 1865-1881:
(Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1934).
Hardback. Covers soiled and top of spine slightly torn, internally good. vi + 488pp. Order No. NSBK-A11865
Keywords: B001OW4ODC, Thomas Carlyle, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, old age
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